RIP: Casey Kasem, DJ and radio personality

RIP: Casey Kasem, DJ and radio personality

From The New York Times:

Casey Kasem, a disc jockey who never claimed to love rock ‘n’ roll but who built a long and lucrative career from it, creating and hosting one of radio’s most popular syndicated pop music shows, “American Top 40,” died on Sunday in a hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash. He was 82.

His death was confirmed by his daughter Kerri Kasem in a Facebook post.

The cause was complications of Lewy body dementia, a progressive disease of the body’s neurological and muscle cells. […]

• Casey Kasem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem

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